Actually Curry did most of it. He outscored the whole Badgers team in the second half. He scored 33 in total, the third straight tournament game (Davidson–a 10 seed– was the underdog all 3 games). They’ll move on to play #1 seed Kansas tomorrow. Everyone in the country who doesn’t live in Jayhawk-land should be pulling for Curry and Davidson.

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The other two games last night were also blowouts. Texas and Memphis round out the Elite 8. Two tickets to the Final Four will be punched tonight. [schedule]

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PIRATES

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Sean Burnett is really, really mad he was cut:

“I’m furious,” he said yesterday by phone [...]. “It’s frustrating and disappointing. I really thought I had a chance of making this team. And to hear the reasons they gave me — or more like the excuses they made up — they didn’t really give me a chance.”

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“Look, I know you can’t go just by spring stats. Anybody can get hot for a month,” Burnett said. “But the way the ball was coming out of my hand, the movement, the location … if you talk to people who have seen me in the past, they’ll tell you everything was back. For [GM] Neal [Huntington] to say he took the 12 best … my personal opinion is that he took the 12 best from a business standpoint.”

Expect plenty more coverage of the opening series here in the next few days.

I have two more videos of the Pirates from last year (from Eric P.) to get up here before the season starts. Here’s one of Duffy hitting an inside the park HR (how it wasn’t ruled an E8 I have no idea) at Yankee Stadium last year: